Re: Supporters brief-up

[Carla Schroder <carla@bratgrrl.com>]

On Saturday 24 July 2004 4:54 pm, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 03:06:57PM -0700, Carla Schroder wrote:
> > On Saturday 24 July 2004 2:50 pm, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 12:21:20PM -0700, Carla Schroder wrote:

> 
> You have a mixed Libranet/Debian system; you have apt pinning in place
> (either provided by Libranet, or added by you) which gives libranet's
> archive preference over Debian's; and you have overridden these pinning
> preferences to install the perl from sid.
> 
> Yes, it's not sid that's broken. ;)
> 
> I'll take a shot in the dark here -- I think you'll find, if you take a
> look at apt-cache show libnet-perl, that libranet's 1:1.12-1 version of
> libnet-perl has a Conflicts: either with newer versions of perl, or with
> some package that perl depends on.
> 
> You can resolve this by running 'apt-get install libnet-perl/testing'.
> (Or 'apt-get install libnet-perl/unstable, since they're the same
> version.)
> 
> If that doesn't work, it's probably a deep, dark problem with the
> version of apt you have installed -- which I assume is also the Libranet
> version, since no one else is seeing this problem.
> 

 Thanks for a quick response. Specifying a specific version is always the 
first thing I try, and that did not work. But I did get it to install 
finally, and here is how.

 After running 'apt-cache policy perl libnet-perl', which is a new trick for 
me, and I saw those Libranet entries, I commented them out of sources.list 
and tried again. Voila, worked like a charm. I really like Libranet, 'cause 
it's Real Debian with a great installer, but sometimes their sources are 
funky. They pull some from Experimental, and even daily snapshots.

Thanks!
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